Joe Cole offered the chance to rebuild career with Spurs

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Liverpool are willing to pay off Cole to terminate the final three years of his dealJason Cairnduff/Action Images

Matt HughesandGary Jacob

Last updated at 12:01AM, August 25 2011

Joe Cole was handed a lifeline last night with an offer to be reunited with
Harry Redknapp at Tottenham Hotspur.

Liverpool are willing to pay off the midfield player to terminate the final
three years of his deal, worth £100,000 a week, only one season after he
joined the club in preference to Tottenham.

“I’m not going to sit here and say I don’t want to sign Joe because I would be
lying,” Redknapp, the manager, said. “It probably would be difficult for the
chairman as he might think Joe didn’t want to come here last year. We took
our